Damian wrote:
> Scott Lawrence wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 10:11 -0500, Paul Mossman wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Can anyone think of a good reason to keep the Polycom "SIP 
> Settings 
> >> in DHCP" screen around?
> >>
> >> It is cumbersome to use with sipXecs, and I don't think there's a 
> >> good use case for doing so anyway.
> >>
> >> Basically, it can be used to configure the Polycom to get the SIP 
> >> server address from DHCP.  It still requires Line configuration 
> >> (Username and Password), but if a SIP server is also 
> configured then 
> >> any DHCP value will be ignored.
> >>
> >> In sipXconfig all new Lines (Internal or External) must 
> include a SIP 
> >> server value.  You can however go back and clear the SIP 
> server value 
> >> after the Line is created, which would allow a DHCP value 
> to be used 
> >> instead.
> >>
> >> There is no reason to do this for an Internal Line though, 
> because it 
> >> will only work if the DHCP value is always exactly the 
> same as what 
> >> sipXconfig would use.
> >>
> >> For an External Line it is even quite a stretch.  If your 
> system has 
> >> Polycoms with External Lines then each is probably an exception, 
> >> rather than many using the same external SIP server.  It seems 
> >> unlikely to me that an administrator would have a desire 
> to use DHCP 
> >> (instead of sipXconfig) to change the SIP server address that the 
> >> External Line on a Polycom registers with.
> >>
> >> I propose getting rid of this screen entirely.  
> >>
> >> If there are no objections then I'll proceed.  Let me 
> know.  Thanks.
> > 
> > I don't think there is any use for such a parameter in a sipXecs 
> > configuration.
> > 
> 
> Make sense to me: yank it. So that means you are not taking 
> patch for http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XCF-1030, right?

Probably not, though I'd like to hear back from the originator before I
close the issue.

-Paul
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